Irène Joliot-Curie was a battlefield radiologist, activist, politician, and daughter of two of the most famous scientists in the world: Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie.
Discover her journey to her own Nobel Prize: https://t.co/3eLj8pf3q9
#OTD in 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein a century before, were observed for the first time by @LIGO.
The observation led to a new way to study our universe and the 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne.
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality.”
- master of magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez.
Learn more: https://t.co/AeeRKVzweC
Little miss and I went a wander over to Partick today after school, using the new Govan-Partick bridge for the first time. We spent some time in the transport museum too.